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GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon HD 3850 X2

Intro

The GeForce GTX 860M has a clock speed of 797 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 3850 X2, which comes with a clock speed of 668 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 828 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 320(64x5) SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 3850 X2 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2 105984 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 41984 (66%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be a lot (about 258%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 X2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M 76512 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 55136 (258%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 3850 X2 will be quite a bit (approximately 68%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 860M, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M 12752 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8624 (68%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 860M Radeon HD 3850 X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 Apr 4, 2008
Code Name GM107 RV670 PRO
Memory 4096 MB 512 MB (x2)
Core Speed 797 MHz 668 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 1656 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 45 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 105984 MB/sec
Texel Rate 76512 Mtexels/sec 21376 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12752 Mpixels/sec 21376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1152 320(64x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 96 16 (x2)
Render Output Units 16 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16/(internal PCIe 1.1 x16)
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 860M

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Radeon HD 3850 X2

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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